Thomas Schmickl Interview

He is currently affiliated as associate professor at the Department for Zoology at the University of Graz (Austria). In this lab, he founded the Artificial Life Lab Graz.

His research interests concern: Bio-inspired artificial collective intelligence within robot swarms, Application and re-embodiment of self-organized animal behavior in autonomous robots, Study of animal behavior, with strong emphasis on social insects, Investigating the phenomena of self-organization and of swarm intelligence, Creating multi-agent models and simulations.